Worries about its over-reliance on Russian gas are pushing the EU to find new suppliers, and this week the bloc launched a charm offensive on gas-producing Caspian states. The FT reports:
“I think that Europe has really got tired of each summer having a discussion of how to make it through the next winter. The world’s biggest economy should not have such concerns in the 21st century,” [Maros Sefcovic, European Commission vice-president heading up the EU’s energy union project] said in an interview with the Financial Times in the run-up to Wednesday’s announcements. Russia would remain a “very important supplier” for …read more
Source: The American Interest
